Hello, Danny Milosavljevic <[email protected]> skribis:
> On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 13:46:08 +0200 > Efraim Flashner <[email protected]> wrote: > >> We support running GuixSD on top of btrfs, and the prevailing wisdom is >> to mark databases (sqlite, postgresql, etc.) as 'chattr +C', that is, as >> not copy-on-write. It is honored under ext4, but it shouldn't cause any >> changes. > > It sounds reasonable to do that - but I don't think that relational databases > are managed by the Guix store. Rather they are in /var or in the home > directory. Long story short, it would make sense for Postgres and Sqlite > upstream to do the chattr +C, if they don't already do it. I agree. Efraim, unless we have a specific example, I’m inclined to close it as “not-a-bug”, with the understanding that it’s an upstream issue rather than something GuixSD-specific. How does that sound? Ludo’.
